The characters of the picture are a large family of hereditary shipbuilders. Three generations of the Zhurbin live under one roof: grandfather Matvei, his son Ilya, three sons of Ilya — Aleksei, Anton and Viktor. In a short time, representatives of the fourth generation are born. The share of the youngest son of Aleksei fall the most severe life tests. The background for family conflicts is the reorganization of production. All Zhurbin's have to change their profession to move on.
Sergei Lukyanov
grandfather Matvei
Boris Andreyev
Ilya Matveyevich
Vera Kuznetsova
Agafya Karpovna
Aleksey Batalov
Aleksei
Sergei Kurilov
Viktor
Vadim Medvedev
Anton
Boris Bityukov
Kostya
Iya Arepina
Tonya
Klara Luchko
Lida
Ekaterina Savinova
Dunyasha
Nikolai Sergeyev
Basmanov
Yelena Dobronravova
Katya Travnikova
Pavel Kadochnikov
Skobelev
Nikolai Gritsenko
head of the club
Boris Kokovkin
factory director
